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...play Yale and Princeton." In the summer of 1886 the faculty agreed to allow the team to schedule Ivy League contests, if the team adopted rules to tame the game's "bestial nature." New groundrules, when they were adopted, did not restrain the players for long. By the early 1890s Harvard and Yale were stunning each other with such devastating innovations as the flying wedge, a formation eventually banned in all U.S. football leagues. After the 1894 match the Boston Globe ran a special box listing the game's players and casualties...
...fleshed out. Henry James, obsessed with inner life to a degree unhealthy for a writer using this form, allowed his short pieces to balloon into "nouvelles", because the psychological world he described in The Turn of the Screw or The Beast in the Jungle was uncharted in the 1890s. He could assume little knowledge and less sympathy on the part of his audience, and thus created his world painstakingly...
...like Hope and Crosby, like Laurel and Hardy. They have just the right chemistry," says Director Mark Rydell of his current stars, James Caan and Elliott Gould. On location in Mansfield, Ohio, for the filming of a comedy titled Harry and Walter Go to New York, the pair portray 1890s vaudevillians who end up in prison with an urbane safecracker, played by Michael Caine. Caan and Gould get wind of Caine's plot to break out of jail and into a bank, and before long they are racing him to the vault. To the actual habitues of Ohio State...
...pianist. It was the only trade he cared about. No doubt Joplin could play "ragged time," as it was first called because of its bouncing bass and syncopated right hand, as bumptiously as the next man. But by the time he began writing his rags down in the late 1890s, they had obviously become objects of care, even personal meaning...
Harvard does have excellent facilities in two areas, crew and squash. The Harvard crew rows out of Newell Boathouse. Built around the 1890s, the Victorian-style edifice has lost much of its aristocratic splendor, although a semblance of its former elegance is still discernible...